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<h2>Future of Broadcast Television Global Summit Announced</h2>
   
    <h3 align=""><strong>International Collaboration Organizes Historic Event</strong></h3>
    <p align="left">      SHANGHAI and WASHINGTON,  August 16, 2011 – Leading broadcast television associations, research  laboratories and standards development organizations* from around the world  have organized a strategic conference focused on the future of terrestrial  broadcast television.</p>
    <p align="left"> The Future of Broadcast Television (FOBTV) Summit will be held to foster  global collaboration to exchange technical advances in the rapidly converging  areas of terrestrial broadcasting, consumer electronics and networking  technologies, discussions that that may lead to the development of common  strategies for the future of terrestrial broadcasting.</p>
    <p align="left"> Industry technology leaders are to be invited to work together to share  their visions of the future of broadcasting. Bringing together the collective  perspectives of experts worldwide should benefit industry leaders as they  identify their optimum national path for terrestrial broadcasting.</p>
    <p align="left"> &quot;I believe that we are entering a Renaissance period for terrestrial  broadcasting&quot; said Mark Richer, President of the Advanced Television  Systems Committee and Co-chair of the FOBTV Organizing Committee. &quot;The  FOBTV Summit will bring together experts from around the world to discuss the  strategic direction of our industry.&quot;</p>
    <p align="left">      &quot;There are many organizations around the world thinking and working  on next-generation broadcast television systems&quot; said Keiichi Kubota,  Director General of NHK Science &amp; Technology Research Laboratories and  Co-Chair of the FOBTV Organizing Committee. &quot;It will be very interesting  to hear about these exciting activities.&quot;</p>
    <p align="left">      The FOBTV Summit will take place on November 10-11, 2011 in Shanghai,   China. The  National Engineering Research Center of Digital Television, China  (www.fobtv-china.org) will host the historic event. NERC-DTV, established in 2010,  is a leading high-tech institution co-founded by Shanghai Jiao   Tong University  and other mainstream digital TV researching institutes, manufacturers, broadcasters  and agencies.</p>
    <p align="left"> &quot;We are honored to host the first FOBTV Summit&quot; said Wenjun  Zhang, Chief Scientist of NERC-DTV. &quot;This will be a great opportunity to  exchange information and share ideas about the future of broadcast  television.&quot; The FOBTV Program Committee, co-chaired by Yiyan Wu,  Principal Research Scientist of the Communications Research Centre (CRC) in Canada and Philip Laven, Chairman of the Digital  Video Broadcast Project (DVB) in Europe, has  put together a compelling set of sessions, including:</p>
    <ul type="disc">
      <li>The Role of       Broadcasting in the Broadband Ecosystem </li>
      <li>Attributes of       a Next Generation Terrestrial Broadcast System </li>
      <li>The Spectrum       Squeeze </li>
      <li>Technologies       on the Horizon </li>
      <li>Roundtable/Panel       Discussions on the Future of Broadcasting </li>
    </ul>
    <h3 align="left"><strong>Venue: </strong></h3>
    <p align="left">      Shanghai International Convention Center Add: 2727, Riverside Avenue, Pudong, Shanghai, China<br />
      *Founding organizations of the FOBTV Summit include:</p>
    <ul type="disc">
      <li>Advanced       Television Systems Committee (ATSC) </li>
      <li>Communications       Research Centre (CRC) </li>
      <li>Digital Video       Broadcast Project (DVB) </li>
      <li>European       Broadcast Union (EBU) </li>
      <li>Electronics       and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) </li>
      <li>Institute of       Electronic and Electrical Engineers (IEEE) </li>
      <li>National       Association of Broadcasters (NAB) </li>
      <li>National Engineering        Research Center of Digital Television (NERC-DTV) </li>
      <li>Japan       Broadcasting Corporation (NHK) </li>
      <li>Public       Broadcasting Service (PBS) </li>
      <li>Rede Globo </li>
    </ul>
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